mgo.licio.us

"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

Comment viewing options

It would be interesting, but bringing back a monochrome uniform may ultimately open the door for an all maize uniform in the future and I dont think the Michigan faithful are quite ready for that. It would be interesting looking to say the least, just not sure it would be 'Michigan'

Reality is an illusion created by an unsafe drop in blood alcohol levels that exposes one to the idiocy of others.

Iowa visitors locker room, as long as we find a way to get around Iowa's front 7 I don't care. I'm convinced Iowa won't put up more than 21 or 24 on us. If we can find a way to score, Iowa is beatable.

"Michigan man or woman. To me, it's a great love for the University of Michigan. There's a selflessness there. It's what can you do for the University of Michigan, not what the Universtiy of Michigan can do for you." JH

was a pretty legit artist who goes by "GhettoFarmBoy." I've seen some of his stuff, and it's not bad. He says he's from Michigan/Indiana, and for all I know it might be one of you.

BUT his original source is "According to two U of M boards." No press release, no insider info. We've all heard plenty of rumbling about white pants here before... but where did the Oct. 10 at Iowa come from?

I know some Rivals poster brought it up. He's proven in the past that he lives with some walk ons or is friends with some guys on the team something along those lines. But I thought that his post was at an odd time for a student on campus, leading me to believe he was still drunk or excited from the game/night and could possibly just be stirring things up. But the Iowa game came from him. The posters name is Datnukahead or something like that, and he's had good info in the past.

I have no idea if there is any truth to it, but figured I'd try to provide a little information from where I saw the rumor originate.

While I like the white pants idea (and totally abhor any idea that includes blue pants or maize jerseys, which seems to also be floating around), I absolutely agree on the 80's white jersey. Classic look, and emblematic of an era when we were quite successful. I'd even love to go back to the jerseys with the M's on the sleeves (1997-2004). I've never liked what Nike or adidas did with our whites since 2005. The yellow bib/stripes thing just looks stupid.

Could be cool looking. My attitude is that the road unis can be changed (except the helmet), as long as we don't go Oregon. The road unis have changed numerous times throughout the years.

The home uniforms simply may not be changed. Ever.

All Maize in basketball = sweet. All Maize in football = WTF was Minnesota wearing? Not sure why it works in one sport and not in another. Six Zero - any thoughts on the different impact in different sports?

“Your satisfaction lies in your illusions/ But your delusions are yours and not mine”

We have worn all white in the past - http://www.mmbolding.com/bowls/Orange762.jpg - so I don't think it will anger too many traditionalists. And it's much better than Maize jerseys. But it will be interesting how it will tie in with the Maize stripe we have on the sides of our current away jerseys.

Funny thing was, until now, I'd always thought they were all-white in the late 70s Rose Bowls too -- but I think it was just that I was watching them on a black-and-white TV, and never realized the pants were yellow.

I absolutely hate it when we wear maize pants on the road against a team (typically Iowa) that wears yellow pants. This has long been a pet peeve of mine.

My solution, however, was not to wear white pants - it was to wear blue pants* with the white road jerseys. For a large number of years (college, etc.), I would typically wear my white U-M jerseys with blue sweatpants, and I loved the look.
__________

*with the understanding that we would never NEVER NEVER NEVER wear blue-on-blue.

Blue pants wouldn't look good. There's a (pseudo-)science to this. Teams almost always wear their lighter color for their pants. We wear maize, OSU wears gray, PSU wears white, etc. You don't wear the dark color on your pants (unless you are also wearing it on your jersey, which some teams do). You basically never see a team wear a white top and dark pants.

I remember in the mid-'90's when they first wore crimson pants with their white jerseys, and I thought it rocked. I suppose it may go against the general pseudo-science rule, but I think it'd look cool, for what that's worth.

Thanks to Pete Carroll at USC, you can now go "color vs color" in jerseys as along as there's enough contrast between the two teams(ie Michigan blue vs UCLA blue--Yes, but Michigan blue vs Penn State blue--No). The rules don't cover pants or helmets, just jerseys.

So given that, here's MHO about what our future unis should be:

1) Michigan should always wear the home blue jerseys and maize pants at home (duh), AND wear them whenever possible on the road, esp at East Lansing, Columbus, and bowl games!

2) If blue jerseys aren't possible on the road due to dark jerseys on the home team (ie @PSU, @Ill, @NW, @Iowa, @Pur, @ND), then wear a new primary road uniform of maize jerseys and blue pants!

3) If for some reason maize jerseys aren't possible either, then break out the traditional white jerseys and maize pants.